 | 1834 - 614 pagina’s
...early. Gathering in dark groups, and leanIng on their muskets, they looked up with sullen desperation on the Trinidad, while the enemy, stepping out on the ramparts, and aiming their shot by the .light of the fireballs which they threw over, asked, as their victims fell, " Why they... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1846 - 636 pagina’s
...after the partial failure of one attack which had been April] made early. Gathering in dark groups and leaning on their muskets they looked up with sullen...over, asked, as their victims fell, " Why they did not come into Badajosr 1812 col. Shaw JJ .,„. In this dreadful situation, while the dead were lying in... | |
 | 1834 - 426 pagina’s
...it after the partial failure of one attack, which had been made early. Gathering in dark groups, and leaning on their muskets, they looked up with sullen...over, asked, as their victims fell, ' Why they did not come into Badajoz?' " In this dreadful situation, while the dead were lying in heaps and others continually... | |
 | 1834 - 604 pagina’s
...early. Gathering in dark groups, and leaning on their muskets, they looked up with sullen desperation on the Trinidad, while the enemy, stepping out on the ramparts, and aiming their shot by the .light of the fireballs which they threw over, asked, as their victims fell, " H liy Utey... | |
 | Memoirs - 1835 - 460 pagina’s
...impregnable. Gathering in dark groups, and leaning on their muskets, they looked up with sullen desperation ; while the enemy, stepping out on the ramparts, and...over, asked, as their victims fell, " why they did not come into Badajos? " About midnight, when two thousand brave men had 165 battalion, about two hundred... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1839 - 900 pagina’s
...it after the partial failure of one attack which had been made early. Gathering in dark groups and leaning on their muskets, they looked up with sullen...which they threw over, asked, as their victims fell, " fPliy they did not come into Badajos ?" In this dreadful situation, while the dead were lying in... | |
 | Andrew Redman Bonar - 1845 - 472 pagina’s
...early. Gathering in dark groups, and leaning on their muskets, they looked up with sullen desperation at Trinidad, while the enemy, stepping out on the ramparts,...over, asked, as their victims fell, why they did not come into Badajos ? " In this dreadful situation, while the dead were lying in heaps, and others continually... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 pagina’s
...Gathering in dark groups, and leaning on their muskets, they looked up at it with sullen desperation, while the enemy, stepping out on the ramparts, and...which they threw over, asked, as their victims fell, i Why they did not come into Badiijoz!' In this dreadful situation, while the dead were lying in heaps,... | |
 | T. M. Hughes - 1847 - 382 pagina’s
...looked up with sullen desperation, while the enemy stepping out on the ramparts, and aiming their shot by the light of the fire-balls which they threw over, asked, as their victims fell, Why they did not come into Badajoz .<"' (Ibid.) Five thousand men fell during the siege, of whom 3,500 were struck during... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1852 - 570 pagina’s
...it after the partial failure of one attack, which had been made early. Gathering in dark groups and leaning on their muskets they looked up with sullen...over, asked, as their victims fell, Why they did not come into Badajos ? In this dreadful situation, while the dead were lying in heaps and others continually... | |
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... did not much notice it after the partial failure of one attack which had been made early. Gathering in dark groups and leaning on their muskets, they looked up with sullen desperation at the Trinidad, while the enemy, stepping out on the ramparts,... 
